DIGITAL REALTY
“ The pandemic has caused a permanent shift in how businesses consume services ”
MARK FONG , VP SALES , APAC AND JAPAN , DIGITAL REALTY
As digital services have become akin to an essential utility like electricity or water , Fong notes that many organisations are learning ( sometimes the hard way ) that an all-in public or private cloud strategy isn ’ t the only way to go .
“ They inevitably end up with some sort of hybrid offering and this realisation has helped us in two main ways ,” he explains , noting that , not only has the shift towards hybrid cloud in APAC led to a rising awareness of the ways in which an operator like Digital Realty can support its customers ’ digital journeys , but also that the past year has seen an increased shift in demand away from the all-in public cloud model towards colocation services like those offered by Digital Realty .
A Pan-APAC Expansion As demand and opportunity grow , Digital Realty is executing an expansion across APAC of historic proportions . The expansion involves spinning up new data centres in markets where Digital Realty already has an established presence , like Singapore , Hong Kong , Australia and Japan , as well as entering new markets like South Korea .
“ We ’ re excited to launch our third data centre in Singapore , Digital Loyang II ( SIN12 ),” says Fong . “ SIN12 will leverage PlatformDIGITAL ® to enable global distributed workflows in the data centre to remove data gravity barriers and scale digital businesses .”
152 April 2021